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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2009 19:38:09 GMT
I was thinking, in my sporadic and disjointed manner, about the time and money absorbed in my diagnosis.
Now, given that I when I first saw my GP I presented her with a pile of filled in questionnaires and background info on me and ADHD, and that I knew that what I wanted was a referral to see Maud, quite some time has elapsed and continues to. It has now been established that I will be seeing Maudlin Maud, so it could be construed that the interim has been a bit of a waste.
During that time I have been claiming some sort of incapacity benefit, at £100 a week. I have been seen twice by a junior mental doctor at the Claybrook Centre, and she has done some background work, possible totalling about 6 hours. If her time is valued at, say, £40 ph, and the consultant who has been consulted, as is his desire, is costed at, perhaps, £100 ph, and he's spent an hour on me, we have a spend of £340, plus £800 so far on spac benefits, so £1140, with an incremental £100 per week ongoing, until I get to the big Maudster.
Now, extrapolating these figures in an anecdotal fashion, expecting that about half of the 10% of the population that have ADHD will have a similar process, which is unlikely, we can expect that 3,000,000 people will require the same expenditure, the total cost, in this scientifically accurate study, will be £3.42 billion, will £30 million being spent each week hence.
The fury amongst the taxpaying population will be unprecedented, I'm sure.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2009 19:49:08 GMT
Apart from your figures being a tad..........wayward This is what the petition says and what I told my MP. If the NHS was incentivised by getting a portion of the cash gained from treating us (less benefits/more taxation) then there'd be a lot more action. Pigs will fly sooner.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2009 19:55:56 GMT
And that's not even beginning to factor in the cost of my underachievement so far, the extra time at uni, the periods on benefits, the reduced income. Taxpayers are right now baying for my blood, but it's not my blood the need.
I shall help those pigs to fly, just to make a point.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2009 18:36:05 GMT
They; (the Gov), will be comparing us to smokers, unhealthy-eaters & binge-drinkers next?!
All of which most of us are anyway, so putting extra strain on NHS..We'll be struck off free medical care in the future im sure?!! LOL
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